PhilipTheBucket

The whole speech is wild. Just reading it in text doesn’t do it justice, but here it is:

https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkivebeentothemountaintop.htm

And then I got into Memphis. And some began to say the threats, or talk about the threats that were out. What would happen to me from some of our sick white brothers?

Well, I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn't matter with me now, because I've been to the mountaintop.

And I don't mind.

Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over. And I've seen the Promised Land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people, will get to the promised land!

Yeah. I don’t really disagree with any of that but the first time you play chess you are going to do a bad job. It looks super simple from the outside in hindsight, but at the time it’s super easy to make boneheaded decisions. Ask me about the time we agreed to do a software project for fixed price, or put the world’s worst project manager in charge of a vital project for an important client. Or did a ton of work for which the formula which determined how much we would be paid turned out to add up to basically a handful of monkey shit every month. Shit happens. The second time around, with some experience, you’re usually able to do a better job of it.

Also for what it’s worth it doesn’t really sound like the post author’s fault, it sounds like he got hired by a company which was in the midst of trying to do some stuff which they had no qualifications for but were making a go of it anyway. And, to their credit, they were trying to build American and fulfill their obligations to some semi-related kickstarter campaigns which are both nice things for them to be making a go of trying to do.

Why is this hilarious or incompetent?

It doesn’t completely sound like they knew what they were doing, but this sounds more or less in line with almost every startup I have ever worked at. It’s why most new businesses fail: Things are a hell of a lot harder than they seem, and you kind of have to be blind to that to even decide to make the attempt.

I feel like maybe with a blog post or something. Or just a post with a detailed laundry list of all the least defensible decisions. I think just having particular political attitudes are (in most cases) fine... but the stuff like this that I have observed on Lemmy, and most of the stuff you've been talking about, there's simply no reasonable reason for. I feel like Reddit is sufficiently anonymous-because-of-bigness and sufficiently corrupted that they get sloppier with it over there.

I want to say it would be a good idea to reach out to carrotcypher and get their take on some of this stuff, too. It's proper due diligence even though something about it makes me not like the idea.

Hey, did you know lemons and oranges are basically the same thing, just one has the left-handed version of the flavor molecule and one has the right-handed?

It's not true. They just have totally different compositions of a variety of the same family of chemicals, and lemons have many times over more acid in them which is what makes them sour. But some people think it, and it would be super cool if it was true.

Yeah. It could trigger a tipping point which destroys agriculture to the point that civilization and the human species in its role as a global presence in the world completely dies off. It’s not even some crazy unlikely outcome.

I don’t think that is the guaranteed outcome, but at the same time, 40% off the global economy is a wildly rose-colored optimistic view of how it’s going to play out. It’s probably going to be much worse.

It is the difference between aspiration and victory

There are three types of pet owners:

• Those who respect their pets’ boundaries
• Those who squeeze their pets who are clearly hating it and fighting back
• Those who squeeze their pets who clearly hate it until the pets’ will is broken and they resign themselves that they’re going to get hugged sometimes and it’s okay

The first and third groupings I can get down with.

It might be worth letting them know.

I am extremely convinced that bad actors have become pretty good at taking over subreddits, and I know there are companies that will sell services where they will do this sort of stuff ("reputation management") if you want the internet as a whole to have a better impression of your company, or overall control the narrative. I don't really know anything at all about carrotcypher specifically, but it sounds a lot like this person might be doing something at least similar to that. So assembling something that's well-documented and organized enough that it's hard to dismiss and then sharing it with any people who are giving carrotcypher a position of authority, sounds like a really good idea. I can help with it in any way if you want me to (although like I say I have no idea about this person specifically beyond suspicious things like this that people have brought up).

The fediverse is very vulnerable to this kind of stuff I think, just like Reddit is, because there's always such a shortage of people who are really willing to put in the time and effort it takes to do behind-the-scenes work like moderation. I think we should definitely be vigilant about calling it out if it seems like someone is doing stuff that's sketchy.

Don’t hesitate. Don’t show fear. Don’t weigh. That’s a huge part of why all this bullshit that Trump does works, is because that’s how he does it because he’s too stupid to make it work any other way. I mean I’m happy if this guy wants to hold someone in contempt now, and I get wanting to think it through because no takes backsies if you escalate something further than you meant to… but. From my comfortable non expert safety position, I feel like it should have been:

Judge: “what’s up with these deportation flights after my order”

Trump lawyer a week ago: “well we’re not going to discuss that today”

Judge a week ago: “Okay sounds good 3 days for contempt, bailiffs if you can take him into custody. Do you have someone you want who can take your wallet, or do you just want it to go into jail property?”

It’s not fully that simple. A lot of food plants were artificially created through selective breeding in the distant past. A lot of the reason the world is even able to sustain the level of agriculture that it currently does is through the desperate application of research and massive effort to keep it going, to make sure everyone gets fed.

I mean it’s not wrong, the same people giving you the credit score aren’t doing a damn thing to keep any of that going and in fact are actively working against the people who do keep it going. But the cushy type of agriculturally supported life we get to enjoy was a product of bigger scale organization and massive day-to-day effort, it wasn’t a casualty of it.

It’s shocking that Congress is on the verge of forcing Americans to rely on the same workarounds that internet users in authoritarian regimes

Buddy… I’m 100% on your side here, both as far as this bill and in general, but I think your training data needs a refresh